One week before the Solheim Cup, Alison Lee explains how a player who wasn't on Angela Stanford's radar in January played her way onto Team USA by June — after an emergency C-section, a first range session that ended in tears, and a driver that "looked like I hit a marshmallow." She goes back to the week she finished dead last in Dallas and nearly walked away, the swing coach who "brought me back from the dead," the Freddie Couples text thread that flipped a switch, and the broomstick putter she wishes she'd found three years earlier. Kent and Scottie get her on the points system she'd change, why she's never been on a losing U.S. team, what a 2015 rookie learned from Cristie Kerr and Paula Creamer, the WTGL, Golf Saudi's money and what it means for the LET — and Caddy Corner, where the most underrated tour stop stumps her cold. Plus: what she hopes her son thinks when he watches her play, and the retirement plan that kicks in the moment she finally wins.
0:00 Cold open — "I got dead last"
0:37 Welcome — Solheim Cup week
0:50 Alison Lee joins
2:14 How she got onto Angela Stanford's radar
5:41 The Golf Channel booth with Grant Boone
8:36 The points system she'd change
15:32 Never on a losing U.S. team
17:26 A 2015 rookie, starstruck — now the veteran
21:37 The last American mom at a Solheim was 2017
23:36 The marshmallow driver — coming back after Levi
25:35 Winning overseas and what a team room needs
30:21 How the LPGA has changed since 2015
33:17 A rookie class for the ages
37:08 The lowest point — dead last in Dallas
38:20 Chris Mason and the turnaround
39:11 Perspective: UCLA, friends, and her mom
41:57 The Freddie Couples text thread
44:18 The broomstick
49:21 WTGL — what year one has to do
52:03 Golf Saudi, LIV and the LET
55:24 Caddy Corner
58:46 "I hope he thinks I'm a cool mom"
60:19 Sign-off
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